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Apple misses iPhone forecasts, stock drops over 10 percent

'Everyone at Apple has their eyes on the future,' Apple CEO Tim Cook said on an earnings conference call.

iPhone Foxconn factory workers demand change

Two workers at a Foxconn factory, the makers of the iPhone, are demanding reforms and pleading for help.
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A group of protestors from SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour) demonstrate outside the Foxconn annual general meeting (AGM) in Hong Kong on May 18, 2011. Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn has been accused of treating its workers 'machines' according to SACOM. At least 13 Foxconn employees died in apparent suicides last year. (Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images)

The makers of the iPhone, the actual workers who assemble the phones for sometimes 18 hours a day, have released an open letter to the American public demanding better working conditions.

In the letter, released to the SumOfUs organization, the workers said that a mass poisoning took place at the factory when laborers used the n-hexane chemical to clean iPhone screens. They claim that n-hexane has caused some workers to suffer neurological damage.

More from GlobalPost: Foxconn protests: workers reportedly threatened suicide

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iPhone, Android or Blackberry: Your smartphone and your sex life

Survey of Canadian singles finds dating preference of different smart phone users. They come in three main forms: lovers, drinkers and iPhone users.
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A model displays Japanese electronics giant Sony's new Android OS-based multimedia player 'Walkman Z series', equipped with a NVIDIA Tegra2 processor and a 4.3-inch LCD display with Google's Android 2.3 OS in Tokyo on September 13, 2011. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)

Android users are tramps, while Blackberry users are drunks.

These are — in a nutshell —the findings of a Match.com online survey conducted with 1,068 Canadian singles from Oct. 13 to 15.

Alright, so perhaps the findings were not quite as harsh, but they did reveal that Canadian singles who use Android phones are more likely to have sex on a first date and partake in one-night stands, compared to those who own other types of smartphones, Postmedia News reports.

What the survey didn’t mention is whether Android users get invited on second dates, or if they always follow Google’s informal motto ‘Do be evil’ during one-night stands.

The polling firm Zoomerang conducted the survey for the dating website Match.com and found 62 percent of the surveyed singles who use Android devices have had sex on a first date, compared with 57 percent of iPhone users and 48 percent of BlackBerry users. At 55 percent, Android users also were the most likely to have one-night stands and — at a whopping 72 percent — were the most active visitors of dating websites.

BlackBerry users — at 72 per cent — were the most likely to drink alcohol on a first date. (Because their BlackBerry service was down?)

Those with an iPhone were most likely to date a co-worker, with nearly a quarter of questioned “iSingles” saying they've had a workplace romance within the last five years. (No word whether the “romance” had to be with an actual human, or if gazing adoringly at a cardboard mock up of one of Apple’s newest gadgets also counts.)

Match.com said in release that social networking and online dating made our love lives and our digital lives even more intertwined and graciously offered a few tips about successful dating in this high-tech environment:

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Steve Jobs biography reveals Apple's war on Google Android

Steve Jobs wanted to wage "thermonuclear war" on Google for what he saw as its theft for the Apple iOS for their Android mobile operating system, according to the first extracts from his forthcoming authorized biography.

iPhone 4S sales break records

Apple reported on Monday that iPhone 4S sales topped 4 million in its first three days, according to PC Magazine.
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